DESCRIPTIVE GEOLOGY: NUMMULITIC ZONE. 2oI 



Beginning in the river-bed we may note the presence of high river- 

 Section across the gravel cliffs forming plateaux and bracket-like 

 Maree ridge to Nugree. terraceS) stuck Qn to fche great and steep conyex 



slopes which descend to the river. Their average height above the 

 river-bed is here about 500 feet. 



The hill-side up to Maree is an exceedingly steep climb up a zigzag, 

 which here and there shews signs of having once been a bridle-road. 

 It is broken into fine crags and ledges and is generally forest- 

 covered. 



Nummulitic limestone is first met with after leaving the pebbly 

 bed of the Hurroh, so a fault is indicated along the valley, a direct 

 continuation of that south of Kamur in the gulee sections. Up to 

 Maree we then ascend an inverted but badly exposed section to the 

 Trias, which latter forms a thin band near Maree bungalow. This 

 thin band cut off by a fault to the south dies out in a north-easterly 

 direction, presumably near Noushuhruh (its dying out was not traced 

 by us) since it makes no appearance in the gulee sections. In the 

 other direction it becomes thinner and less noticeable, as shewn by 

 sections further south-west, until it also dies out, leaving the Jurassic 

 band to carry on the same line of flexure down the lower parts of 

 the valley of the Hurroh. 



As regards the beds between the Trias and Nummulitic below 

 Maree, it is a remarkable fact, already alluded to when describing the 

 stratigraphical elements, that no trace of the Cretaceous band was 

 found. Gieumal sandstone and Spiti shales with the belemnite 

 bed are present, but poorly displayed in broken outcrops. 



Beyond Maree, Nummulitic limestone extends to the top of the 

 main ridge, and we then descend the other side towards Nugree for 

 some way in the same. Horizontal section No. 3 will shew the order 

 of succession down this slope. Nothing need be remarked about the 

 Trias limestone, but the northern of the two exposures of Jurassics 

 are detailed below. It will be seen to be in many ways similar to 



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